Curtain-stick and guide



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No; 528,709. Patented Nov. 6, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GILBERT L. BAILEY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

CURTAIN-STICK AND GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 528,709, dated November6, 1894.

Application filed March 5,1892. Serial No. 423,946. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GILBERT L. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Portland, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Curtain-Sticks and Guides,of

. which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements on the curtain stick forwhich Letters Patent were granted to Gilbert L. Bailey and Warren W.Cole, dated February 16, 1892, No. 468,861; and the objects ofmyimprovements are, first, to provide means for greater freedom ofaction in the curtain stick; and, second, to prevent the rattling of thetraveling guides when a car is in motion; all as hereinafter set forth.I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1, is a front view of a portion of the curtainstick, in its normal position and with a part cut away, to better showmy improvements. Fig. 2 is a similar view, but with the stick placed inan oblique position. Fig. 3, is a top view, drawn on a smallerscale,which better shows the traveling guide, and the window frame guide inwhich it slides' Similar figures refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

' Each end of the tubular stick 2 is provided with a loosely fittingguide-rod 5, extending within said stick and projecting slightlytherefrom. A traveling guide, or shoe 6, of any desired length, andT-shaped, in cross section, (see Fig. 3) works in a rabbeted groove inthe upright guide '7, fixed on the side of the window frame 9. The bodypart of said traveling guide projects out from said groove and ispivoted to the outer end of the guide rod 5.

A coiled spring 8, is placed within the tube 2 and between the innerends of the two rods; which spring, acting against the inner ends ofsaid rods, serves to hold the traveling guide 6 against the windowframe, or upright guides, thus preventing any rattling of said guides,when the car, to which they may be attached, is in motion, and, at thesame time creating a frictional resistance to the action of the windingup, spring roller, to which the top of the curtain is attached. Spring 8is of such length as to act on the traveling guides only when thecurtain stick is in the I normal position seen at Figs. 1 and 3; but,

whenever one end of said stick may be suddenly raised, the rods 5 aredrawn away from the spring 8, by means of the traveling guides, and arereleased from its pressure; as clearly shown at Fig. 2. This permits theelevated end to easily drop back, or the opposite end to be easilyraised by the spring roller, so that the stick will resume a horizontalposition, when the hand is removed.

The pivotal joint 5", between each of the guide-rods and its travelingguide 6, makes available a closer fitting, and a more desirable form oftraveling guide, and gives a freer movement to the curtain stick whenlifted on an angle.

A detailed description of the operationof the extensible curtain stickmay be found in the aforementioned patent to Bailey and Cole.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a curtain stick; a sliding rod projecting fromthe end thereof; and a traveling guide, adapted to engage with a guideon the frame of a window, of a pivotal connection between said travelingguide and said sliding rod; all substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

.2. The combination of a hollow curtain stick; guide-rods which slide inand project from the ends of said stick; traveling guides which engagewith fixed guides of the window frame; and hinge-joints connecting saidguide-rods and said traveling guides; all substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

3. The combination with the curtain stick; the sliding rods; and uprightguides on awindow frame, of the traveling guides having body-parts thatproject from said upright guides; and hingejoints between saidprojecting body-parts and the outer ends of said guide-rods; allsubstantially as hereinbefore set forth. I

4. The combination with a tubular curtain stick; guide-rods projectingfrom the ends thereof; traveling guides connected with said guide-rods;and guides on, the frame of a window,with which said traveling guidesconnect,

too

of a spring, located intermediately of the inner

